Wonder By R. J. Palacio: Summary

In the novel Wonder by R. J. Palacio, the reader gets to experience the disadvantage of a birth defect on the outside of his body, and they get to see how badly this defect affects August Pullman. August knows all the names everyone calls him when he’s not around “Ratboy. Freak. Monster. Freddy Krueger. E.T. Gross-out. Lizard face. Mutant.” (Palacio 79) August knows that everyone says mean things about him behind his back, he tries not to let anyone know that he hears them, and that the comments affect him because they are so mean. He already knows that how he looks affects people’s perceptions of him people’s perspectives of him, but he wishes that they could try not to judge, and treat him as harshly as everyone has been in the past. August